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Soulskillon Tuesday June 03, 2014 @06:10PM
from the cleaning-up-the-digital-streets dept.

New submitter velco writes: "ETH Zurich Software Reliability Lab announced JSNice, a statistical de-obfuscation and de-minification tool for JavaScript. The interesting thing about JSNice is that it combines program analysis with machine learning techniques to build a database of name and type regularities from large amounts of available open source code on GitHub. Then, given new JavaScript code, JSNice tries to infer the most likely names and types for that code by basing its decision on the learned regularities in the training phase."

Sort of useful, I guess. But ultimately not an essential feature for malicious javascript analysis. I think the tool would be more useful to legitmate JS reverse-engineering tasks as their obfuscated JS are much much bigger.